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No. 6|5,306. Patented Dec. 6, |898.

L. RAUH D. MCNEAL.

AUTUGRAPHIC REGISTER.

(Application led Jan. 8, 189.8.)

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Attorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEOPOLD RAUI-I AND DAVID MONEAL, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNORS TO I THEEGRY AUTOGRAPI-IIO REGISTER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 615,306, dated December6, 1898. Application led January 8, 12?98.` Serial No. 666,009. (Nomodel.)

strips are torn off in sections as used. Y The` strip which is stored upin the apparatus after being written upon will be herein termed therecord paper or strip. One of the strips which after being written on istorn off Vrolls of paper and furnish frictional resistance to theirunwindin g, these spring-pressed bosses being merely typical of ordinarywellknown tension devices employed on the supply-rolls of autographicregisters; 12, a series of guide bars or rolls disposed below the coverof the casing at the foot of the writingtablet, there being one of theseguide-rolls for each of the supply-rolls; 13, the feedrolls, of usualconstruction of mounting, disposed at the head. of the tablet andadapted to be turned by hand and advance all of the papers led from thewriting-tablet; 14, a guide roll or rod disposed across'the casing infront of the record-supply roll 8; 15, a springpressure, nger bearingyieldingly in sections as used will be termed the bill Strip or paper,while the third Strip will be termed the duplicate paper or strip, the

` three papers thus providing for the torn-oft bill, for the torn-offduplicate, and for the stored record.

Our improvements will be readily understood from the followingdescription, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, inwhich*- Figure 1 is a side .elevation of an autographic registerembodying our improvements; Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section ofthe same; Fig. 3, a horizontal section of the same, and Fig. 4 a diagramillustrating the course of the papers.

In the drawings, 1 indicates the usual casing sides of an autographicregister; 2, the usual floor of the casing; 3, the usual writing-tabletat the top of the casing; 4, the usual cover to the casing and having awicket over the writing-tablet through which the writing is to be doneupon paper lying upon the tablet and exposed through the wicket; 5, thespindle for the supply-roll of recordpaper, this spindle being disposed,as usual, across the casing of the register; G, a similar spindle forthe supply-roll of bill-paper; 7, a `similar spindle for the supply-rollof duplicate-paper; 8, the supply-roll of record-paper; 9, thesupply-roll of bill-paper; 10, the

supply-roll of duplicate-paper; 11, springagainst roll 14 and typifyingan ordinary tension device to yieldingly resist the passage of paperover the roll; 16, verticallyslotted bearings at the inner sides of thetwo side walls of the casing and in a vertical plane midway between thespindles 5 and 6; 17, the record-storage spool, the same consisting of aroll having end journals freely engaging the slotted bearings 16; 18,pressure-springs engaging over the journals of record-storage roll 17and yieldingly urging that roll downward; 19, the record-paper on itsway from the feed-rolls to the record-storage roll 17; 20, thebill-paper projecting from the feedrolls and adapted to be torn off; 21,the duplicate-paper projecting from the feed-rolls and adapted to betorn off, and 22 the usual tearing-blade in front of the feed-roll toserve in tearing off the bill and. duplicate papers.

The course of the papers can best be followed in Fig. 4. The strip fromrecord-storage roll S passes rearwardly and bends around one ofguide-rolls 12, and then passes over the writing-tablet and between thefeed-rollsl,

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from roll 10 and bends around the rear one of rolls 12 and then over thewriting-tablet and out between the feed-rolls. Transfer-paper is to bedisposed as usual between the strips lying over the Writing-tablet, sothat writing done upon the top paper will be reproduced upon the papersbelow, as usual. Feed-rolls 13 grip the three papers and when turnedadvance the three papers, the bill-paper and the duplicate-paperprojecting out under the tearing-blade, where they may be torn olf asdesired, the record-strip going down into the casing for storage. If itbe desired to have a bill and a duplicate to be torn off, as Well as astored record-strip, then the three supplyrolls S, 9, and 10 will beneeded. If, however, only a torn-oft' bill and a stored-up record beneeded, then supply-roll lO may be dispensed with and the paper drawnfrom roll 9 may be the bill-paper. In other words, the third paper forthe duplicate bill may be omitted from further consideration, andattention need be given only to the two rolls S and 9.

The record-paper after passing from the feed-rolls and around guide rollor rod 14 has its end attached to storage-roll17, so as to be wound uponthat roll. The storage-roll rests upon the two supply-rolls 8 and 9 andpresses down against them by Virtue of its own weight, aided by thepressure of springs 18. Consequently as rolls S and vdare turned by theaction of the feed-rolls in drawing the papers from the two supply-rollsthe storageroll 17 becomes turned by reason of the frictional contact ofthe rolls, and it is obvious that the peripheral speed of turning of thestorage-roll 17 will be the same as the peripheral speed of turning ofthe two supply-rolls. Hence the record-strip winds upon thestorageroll17 at the rate of withdrawal of recordpaper fromrecord-supply roll S. The storage-roll 17 is at liberty to rise andfall, so as to permit the lower portion ot' its periphery to alwaysproperly engage the two supply-rolls below it regardless of the Varyingdiameters of the several rolls. The storage-roll 17 increases itsdiameter as paper is wound up upon it, but at the same time the diameterof the supply-rolls becomes reduced by reason of paper being drawn fromthem, the consequence being that storage-roll 17 will not rise in directproportion to its increase in diameter as the winding upon it takesplace. It is desirable that storage-roll 17 have considerable weight,and in many cases the weight of this roll will be sufficient to insureproper frictional contacts without the aid of pressure-springs 18. Theobject of guide roll or rod 14 and tension-finger 15 is to hold therecord-paper snug and taut as it goes to its storage-roll, and in somecases this tension device may be dispensed with.

In the exemplication the slotted bearings 16 are vertical and inavertical plane between the Vertical planes of spindles 5 and G, and roll17 is above the horizontal plane of those spindles. Vertical and aboveare to be understood as of' exemplifying terms, it being only essentialthat roll 17 shall be out of the common plane of the two spindles and becapable of a movement perpendicular to that plane.

We claim as our inventionl. In an autographic register, the combination,substantially as set forth, of a casing, a writing-tablet supportedthereby, a pair of feed-rolls at one end of the writing-tablet, a pairof spindles supported by the casing parallel with said feed-rolls andadapted to support supply-rolls of papers to be led over the tablet andbetween the feed-rolls, and a storage-roll disposed in the casingparallel with said spindles and out of their common plane and mountedfor motion perpendicular with reference to said spindles.

2. In an autographic register, the combination, substantially as setforth, of a casing, a writing-tablet supported thereby, a pair offeed-rolls atone end of the writing-tablet, a pair of spindles supportedby the casingparallel with said feed-rolls and adapted to supportsupply-rolls of papers to be led over the tablet and between thefeed-rolls, a storageroll disposed in the casing parallel with saidspindles and out of their common plane and mounted for motionperpendicular with reference to the common plane of those spindles, aguide-bar disposed across the casin g parallel with the feed-rolls andadapted to receive a bend of paper passing from the feed-rolls to saidstorage-roll, and a tension device engaging the paper passing over saidrod.

3. In an autographic register,the combination, substantially as setforth, of a casing, a writing-tablet supported thereby, a pair offeed-rolls at one end of the writing-tablet, a pair of spindlessupported by the casing parallel with said feed-rolls and adapted tosupport supply-rolls of papers to be led over the tablet and between thefeed-rolls, slotted bearings at the sides of the casing between theplanes of said spindles, and a storageroll having its journals engagingsaid slotted bearings.

4E. In an autographic register,the combination, substantially as setforth, of a casing,

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a writing-tablet supported thereby, a pair of feed-rolls at one end ofthe writing-tablet, a pair of spindles supported by the casing parallelwith said feed-rolls and adapted to support supply-rolls of papers to beled over the tablet and between the feed-rolls, slotted bearings at thesides of the casing between the planes of said spindles, a storage-rollhaving its journals engaging said slotted bearings, and springs engagingsaid storageroll and yieldingly urging it toward the common plane ofsaid spindles.

5. In an autographic register,the combination, substantially as setforth, of a casing, a writing-tablet supported thereby, a pair offeed-rolls at one end of the tablet, a pair of spindles crossing thecasing below the tablet and adapted to support supply-rolls of paper, ofthe supply-rolls carried by said spindles a pair of guide-rods at theend of the tablet and over one of the papers going from the 1o oppositethe feed-rolls and adapted to receive supp1yro1ls to said guide-bars.

papers coming from said supply-rolls to the LEOPOLD RAUH. tablet, and astorage-roll mounted for rising- DAVID MCNEAL. and-fallin g motion abovethe horizontal plane Witnesses:

and between the vertical planes of said spin- ROY G. FITZGERALD,

dles and adapted to engage the peripheries THEO. C. LINDSEY, J1.

